258 research outputs found
Testing the Benefits of Blended Education: Using Social Technology to Foster Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Face-To-Face LIS Courses
No full textBlended education, which mixes elements of face-to-face and online educational delivery, can occur at the activity, course, program, or administrative level. This study examined the use of student blogs to test the benefits of course-level blended educational delivery for LIS students enrolled in a face-to-face course. Data collected from students' blogs were also used to assess whether Zach and Agosto's (2009) framework for maximizing student collaboration and knowledge sharing in online courses can be applied to face-to-face courses. The study found that blogs successfully supported collaboration and community building because they were well-suited to sharing course-related knowledge and because students encountered few technical barriers. These findings support Zach and Agosto's proposed criteria for selecting technologies to foster increased collaboration and knowledge sharing, e.g., low learning curves and easily facilitated student interaction. The results suggest that blended education can bring many of the educational benefits of online learning to face-to-face students
Testing the Benefits of Blended Education: Using Social Technology to Foster Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Face-To-Face LIS Courses
No full textBlended education, which mixes elements of face-to-face and online educational delivery, can occur at the activity, course, program, or administrative level. This study examined the use of student blogs to test the benefits of course-level blended educational delivery for LIS students enrolled in a face-to-face course. Data collected from students' blogs were also used to assess whether Zach and Agosto's (2009) framework for maximizing student collaboration and knowledge sharing in online courses can be applied to face-to-face courses. The study found that blogs successfully supported collaboration and community building because they were well-suited to sharing course-related knowledge and because students encountered few technical barriers. These findings support Zach and Agosto's proposed criteria for selecting technologies to foster increased collaboration and knowledge sharing, e.g., low learning curves and easily facilitated student interaction. The results suggest that blended education can bring many of the educational benefits of online learning to face-to-face students
Reply to Crispin Wright and Richard Zach
No full textI am very grateful to Crispin Wright and Richard Zach for their thoughtful and penetrating comments on my book, The Boundary Stones of Thought (henceforth BST; unadorned page numbers below refer to this volume). The author of any reasonably long philosophical work will feel more confident in some of his claims than in others, and in studying Wright’s and Zach’s essays I have been struck by how often they home in on elements which gave me most trouble when writing the book and of which I was least certain having finished it. While that makes the job of defending my position harder, it is in one important respect comforting, for it suggests that the book was sufficiently clearly written to have enabled this meeting of minds. In a symposium of this kind, there can be few things more depressing than for the author to have to write: ‘X attributes to me such-and-such an argument, but what I really meant was instead this’. Thankfully, very little of that will be needed here.
While Wright and Zach focus on different parts of BST (Zach on Chapters 6–8, Wright on Chapters 9 and 10), there are many thematic connections between their commentaries. Rather than give separate replies, then, I shall address the relevant topics in the order in which they appear in my book, dealing (as I hope) with all their main points as I go
Zach\u27s News
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The new test for dishonesty in criminal law – lessons from the courts of equity?
No full textThe Supreme Court decision in Ivey v Genting Casinos rejected the two stage test for dishonesty set out in R v Ghosh and replaced it with a single, objective test which transcends both criminal and civil law. This article asks whether it was correct to create a single test for dishonesty and in doing so, what role will subjectivity now play in the criminal law’s application of what is considered dishonest behaviour. Historically, the civil courts have beset with confusion as to the role of subjectivity in the test for dishonesty in light of Royal Brunei Airlines v Tan. The author will consider whether lessons can be learned from the civil courts and whether similar problems will trouble criminal law, particularly in light of criticism of the Ivey test and a preference, by some, for subjectivity to play a greater role in criminal liability for theft and other dishonesty offences
Development of composite calibration standard for quantitative NDE by ultrasound and thermography
No full textInspection of aircraft components for damage utilizing ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) is a time intensive endeavor. Additional time spent during aircraft inspections translates to added cost to the company performing them, and as such, reducing this expenditure is of great importance. There is also great variance in the calibration samples from one entity to another due to a lack of a common calibration set. By characterizing damage types, we can condense the required calibration sets and reduce the time required to perform calibration while also providing procedures for the fabrication of these standard sets. We present here our effort to fabricate composite samples with known defects and quantify the size and location of defects, such as delaminations, and impact damage. Ultrasonic and Thermographic images are digitally enhanced to accurately measure the damage size. Ultrasonic NDE is compared with thermography.This proceeding may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing.
This proceeding appeared in Dayal, Vinay, Zach G. Benedict, Nishtha Bhatnagar, and Adam G. Harper. "Development of composite calibration standard for quantitative NDE by ultrasound and thermography." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1949, no. 1, p. 060006. AIP Publishing LLC, 2018, and may be found at
DOI: 10.1063/1.5031552.
Copyright 2018 The Author(s).
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Colorado Water Institute, FY2008/2009 activities and impact report
No full textAssembled and reviewed by: Reagan Waskom, Nancy Grice, Zach Hittle
Springdale, Leavenworth County
No full textBaker, Zach, “Springdale, Leavenworth County,” Chapman Center Research Collections, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/3.The author describes the life of an early Irish Catholic settlement in eastern Kansas. Originally a Quaker community, Irish immigration "exploded" there just after the Civil War, eventually stamping the town with a particular religious culture. After railroads made the Fort Riley mail road obsolete, Springdale declined. St. Thomas Catholic Church was a vital center for decades
Microblogging to share crisis information
No full textThe purpose of our research project is to examine how Twitter, the most popular microblogging site, was used for information dissemination during a violent crisis. Previous research has focused on the use of Twitter as an information-sharing resource during natural crises. A 2009 multiple police-officer shooting that took place in the Seattle-Tacoma, Washington area is used as a case study. During this time, citizens, news media, and other organizations turned to Twitter as one way to send messages about the crisis.
Twitter allows users to send messages of up to 140 characters in length. The messages often contain URLs linking to websites, photos, files, and multimedia resources. We collected 6013 publicly available Twitter messages focused on the crisis. The messages were qualitatively coded as information-related, opinion-related, technology-related, emotion-related and action-related. Author characteristics, such as organizational affiliation and geographic location, were also analyzed. We found that there were 1668 unique authors of the 6013 messages. The vast majority (91.5%) of the authors were citizens with no organizational affiliation. We also found that 79% of the messages contained information-related content (75% of the messages contained information-sharing content and 4% contained information-seeking content). Citizens shared information about police activities, sightings of the suspect, criminal history of the suspect, and descriptions of the suspect. Twitter was also used to share opinion-related content (16.8% of messages) and, to a lesser extent, to share technology-related content (3.8%), emotion-related content (3.7%), and action-related content (0.9%).
During the violent crisis in the Seattle-Tacoma area, we found that Twitter became one method for citizens to share crisis information. An investigation is in progress to analyze the types of information transmitted, the sources of the information, and the temporal trends of the information shared. Our research will enrich our understanding of how citizens use social media during crises
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